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Skiers,

lead way

By CasNews Staff
Cross-country skier Dana Manhard
won a silver and bronze medal to lead
the Castlegar contingent of athletes at

lifters
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the B.C. Winter Games in Penticton
last weekend

Manhard won his silver in the
Junior Men’s 10 kilometre race at the

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Men's Classic 10 kilometre event.

The weightlifting team from
Stanley Humphries secondary school,
which had all nine members quatify
for the Games, came home with four
medals.

Suzanne Powell, 18, the only
women weightlifter in her category at
the Games, took home the gold medal
for the second straight year.

Also repeating their performances
from last year’s games were Trevor
Seville, 18, of Robson, who won a
gold medal and Rick Young, 18, who
took silver.

In_his__first appearance atthe
Games, Mark Kyle, 15, the man with
the funky haircut (it stands straight
up off his head) proved he was more
than just something to look at by
taking the silver medal in his category.

Dunneback matched Manhard, his
Zone 1 teammate, as a two-time
medalist. Dunneback won a gold in
the Junior Boys 5 kilometre race and
snagged bronze in the Juvenile boys
regular 5 kilometre event.

Other Castlegar athletes competing
in the games were: Paul Semenoff and
Janice Kuzyk in racquetball; Averil
Sheppard, Melanie Gibson, Darren
Tamelin, Jenny Gibson, Peter
Bullock and Wayne Stupnikoff in
cross-country skiing, Adam Maerz,
Ian Batchelor, David Bayoff and Rod
Harshenin in weightlifting, and Don
Poole in badminton.

The Castlegar contingent was a
portion of the Zone 1 team which in-

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Hope dims for b-ball team

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar Realty got in the win
column in the Trail Men's Basketball
League playoffs Wednesday but it
may be too late.

Castlegar, which won first place in
the league after the regular season,
evened it's record at 1-1 with one
game remaining in the round-robin
playoffs with a 69-65 win over Vic-
toria Place in the Cominco Gym.

Brian Turlock scored 35 points and
Wayne McCarthy had 17 for

Gery sets
record

LEICESTER, England (AP) —
Canada’s Marcel Gery stormed to his
second world best time within 24
hours when he clocked 24.07 seconds
in the heats of the 50-metre butterfly
at a World Cup short-course swim
meet Saturday.

The 24-year-old, who defected

from Czechoslovakia in 1986 and now_

lives and trains in Toronto, sliced 0,06
seconds off the previous world best
set by Dimitri Volkov of the Soviet
Union last week.

Volkov, an Olympic bronze
medallist, also holds world best times
for the 50- and 100-metre breast-
stroke.

On Friday, Gery set a world best
time of 52.07 seconds for the short-
course 100-metre butterfly and collec-
ted a 10,000-pound ($20,488 Cdn)
prize.

NFL may
add week

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) —
The National Football League is close
to adding a 17th week to its schedule
next year, which would give each
team an open date and eliminate the
week off before the Super Bowl, Den-
ver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen said.
League owners, who meet March 12-
16 in Orlando, are close to agreement
on the issue, said Bowlen, who added
there was no discussion of adding to
the current 16 games.

Investors
talk team

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — With the
future of the NHL's North Stars up in
the air, a group of local investors is
poised to purchase a Global Hockey
League franchise for the Twin Cities,
group spokesman Pat O'Halloran
said Friday. The investors are ready to
commit more than $6 million in start-
up costs for the new team in the new
league, which hopes to begin with 10
franchisesin North America and eight
in Europe.

Castlegar while Chad Coupland had a
season high 43 and Ernie Rella 17 in
response for Victoria Place.

Despite the win Castlegar’s chances
of capturing the league crown look
slim because of a playoff format that
takes into account points for and
against in deciding a winner in case of
atic.

And a tie with two other teams,
Smelter Pub and Victoria Place, is all
Castlegar can hope for now.

cat Services, which drops to 0-2 in the
playoffs and is out of contention, 79-
65 in the other game Wednesday.

Dave Vaness led the way for
Smelter Pub, canning 23 while Jody
White had 18 and Don Meadows 16.

John Denison and Steve Plaa shot
back with 20 -points apiece for
Kingfisher and Duane Donald helped
out with 17 in a losing cause.

The win puts Smelter Pub in the
drivers seat heading into the last

for Victoria Place to beat Smelter Pub
while Castlegar has to beat Kingfisher
to put the teams in a three-way tie.

The winner would be decided by
taking all the teams points for and
subtracting its points against with the
winner being the team with ihe
highest net points.

Final rould action starts at Comin-
co Gym at 7:15 p.m. with Smelter
Pub playing Victoria Place, while
Castlegar takes on Kingfisher in the

Smelter Pub beat Kingfisher Bob-

round while Castlegar’s only hope is

8:20 p.m. game. "

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By ED MILLS
Staff Writer

EAST DIVISION

Columbia Valley Rockies vs. Elk Valley Raiders

(Columbia Valley leads best.of seven series 2-0)

Easily the roughest series of them all and the most
lopsided as well.

In the first game, a 17-1 win for the Rockies, over
300 minutes, in penalties were

Rockies coach Eddie Mountain said the Raiders
know they can’t beat his team on the ice so they’re
resorting to goon tactics.

In game two of the series in Elk Valley Friday it
was the same thing as Columbia Valley won 7-2 and
the goonery continued. Rockies’ forward Ryan
Dayman was a casualty in one of three fights in the
game, suffering a broken nose.

“It’s totally ridiculous., It- was just a terrible
exhibition of hockey,’’ said Mountain, referring to Elk
Valley’s tactics during the series.

Mountain is hoping the series will take the
minimum four games so his players can avoid suspen-
sions and injuries.

The two teams tangled again Saturday but no
results were available at press time.

CRANBROOK COLTS VS SPOKANE BRAVES
(Best of seven series tied at one)

Controversy. in the Cranbrook camp has over-
shadowed what has been the closest and cleanest series
of the bunch.

After losing to Spokane 9-8 in overtime in the first
game of the series, Colts’ head coach Dan McNeill was.
fired and assistant coach Dan Moser resigned.

Colts president Tiny Spooner has béen tight-
lipped about the firing while McNeill says his ter-
mination came as a total surprise and that he was con-
fused by the move.

McNeill’s dismissal didn’t seem to throw the Colts
into a tailspin as they came out and beat the Braves 6-5
Friday night in Spokane, to even the series.

Spokane, which had a 1-6 record against Cran-
brook during the season, has to be considered the sur-
prise team of the playoffs, and could take the Colts the
distance in this series.

Braves’ assistant coach Bob Tobiason, says goalie

“trent Levens has been outstanding in the series to date
and-fs one of the reasons Spokane‘is staying with the
favored Colts.

Only eight minor penalties were called in game
two. ‘‘This is real good, clean hockey, just down to the
basics,”’ said Tobiason. i

FINAL REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS
INDIVIDUAL SCORING
EAST DIVISION
So 3 76 McNeill, Cronbrook
30 45 . Sch
38 36
3835

7 33
2 45
2

8. Brodtord. Trail 21

PLAYOFFS
ROUNDUP

Again, results from Saturday's game in Spokane
were not available.

WEST DIVISION

TRAIL SMOKE EATERS VS. GRAND FORKS
BORDER BRUINS
(Trail leading best of seven series 2-0)

This is the second-roughest series in the playoffs
as the Border Bruins came out in game one trying to
knock the Smokies off their game by knocking their
heads off.

The strategy didn’t work as the Smokies skated to
a7-0 win.

Game two in Grand Forks Friday was a tamer and
tighter affair and the Smokies were trailing 5-3 at the
midway point of the second, but came back to score
four unanswered goals to win 8-5.

KIJHL rookie of the year Layne Roland, led the
Smokies with a hattrick and a pair of assists.

Mike Tavaroli, the Smokies’ star centre and
league MVP, had a plastic surgeon stitch up a gash un-
der his eye he received during game one but was back
with a full face shield for game two.

“‘It was just a hair away from losing his eye . .
said Smokies coach Danny Bradford.

Bradford had lodged an appeal with the game's
officials over the incident in which Grand Forks’ cen-
tre Darcy Quiring’s stick went under Tavaroli’s face
mask and clipped his eye. Quiring was given a five-
minute major penalty for high-sticking.

The Border Bruins, knowing how dangerous he is,
assigned one and sometimes two players to shadow
Tavaroli through the first two games of the series.

The series moved back to Trail for game three
Saturday night.

NELSON MAPLE LEAFS VS. BEAVER
VALLEY NITE HAWKS
(Maple Leafs lead series 1-0)

A mild surprise in the opener as the Nite Hawks
stuck with the regular season West Division champions
all the way before finally losing 6-4.

Over the last quarter of the season and into the
playoffs, the Maple Leafs haven't looked like the same
team that dominated the KIJHL's West Division for
much of the season and could be ripe for the picking.

Certainly the Smoke Eaters are looking forward
to getting a crack at the Leafs if both teams win their
series’.

The close score in game one was somewhat
deceiving as Nite Hawks goalie Scott Zackowski stop-
ped 48 shots to keep his team in it.

The Nite Hawks also got two goals with a two-
man advantage in the third period.

Steve Williams paced the Maple Leafs with two
goals while Craig Sehrubsall, Jamie Marriott, Shawn
Cater and Brian Boates had one each for Nelson.
Wayne Titus with two, Jessie Anast and Cory Neil
replied for Beaver Valley.

The Nite Hawks would dearly love to have all-
star defenceman Jason startup in the lineup, but it
appears unlikely he will see any playoff action even
though the team has launched an appeal to a two-
month suspension he received Feb. 3.

Results from Saturday’s game in Beaver Valley
weren’t available at press time.

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By CasNews Staff

The difference was legs.

One team had them, the other
didn’t and the result was a 9-4 win for
Sandman Innsover Woodland Park
Shell in a Castlegar Recreational
.

QUICK ON THE DRAW
Inn's Al Conroy in a Cas

of 9-4.

CosMews photo by Ed Mills

jegar Recreational
Thursday. But it was Sandman that won the only thing

Hockey League game at the Com-
munity Complex last night.

League scoring.leader Clay Mar-
tini paced Sandman with two goals.

and four assists to up his season total”

to 112 points, including 63 assists.

ey League

Shell's Kelly Keraiff lost some
ground on Martini as he had two
assists in a losing cause to remain in
second place in league scoring with 33
goals and a league leading 66 assists.

Despite icing only six skaters and.

Woodland Park Shell's Kelly Keraiff gets the draw from Sandman
game at the Comminity Complex
jat matters — the game, by a score

goalie Barry Grunerud for the game,
Shell took an early 2-0 lead in the first
peri- d and held it until the start of the
second.

Chris Brodman opened the scoring
for Shell from Keraiff and Kevin Kir-
by with just 46 seconds gone in the
first. Keraiff then combined with
Jason Hughes to set up Bruno
Tassone at the 10 minute mark to
make it 2-0.

Sandman, which had nine skaters

~ and goalie Tim Swanson, seemed to

be biding time waiting for Shell to run
out of gas.

In the second period Shell got into
penalty trouble early as Kirby took a
delay of game minor prior to the
opening faceoff.

Sandman capitalized 17 seconds
later with Al Conroy coverting a feed
from Adrian Markin and Dave
Terhune.

Sandman tied the game at two with
Kirby in the penalty box again, this
time for hooking, as. Duane Weir
scored from Martini and Vince An-
tignani.

Penalty trouble continued for Shell
and at one point in the second the

Goon:scoffs at helmet ruling

VANCOUVER (CP) — Bruce Ram-
say uses his head at school and his op-
ponents’ heads at the rink — to punch,
that is.

The burly 20-year-old with the Ver-
non Lakers of the B.C. Junior Hockey
League is a math major and an enfor-
cer who seems to spend more time in
the penalty box than on the ice.

And when it comes to fighting, he’d
rather protect his hands than his head.

So it’s not surprising Ramsay scoffs
at the league’s attempt to stop players
discarding their helmets before a
hockey scrap.

“With a helmet on you hurt your
hands and I have already done that
enough this year.""

Ramsay, a six-foot, 180-pound lef-
twinger, has spent more than 170
minutes in the penalty box in only 32
games.

Junior league
cracking down

“In most fights the helmet usually
comes off before its over,’’ he said
“*So what's the difference?’’

Prompted by a memo from the
Canadian Amateur Hockey
Association, B.C. junior ‘league of-
ficials told the league’s coaches to stop
the widespread custom.

Deliberately removing a helmet
prior-to fighting will void liability in-
surance policies, said CAHA president
Murray Costello.

CARRIES POLICY
The CAHA, which carries its own

Penalties will
be costly in
hockey tourney

By CasNews Staff
Penalties in a hockey game can be
costly if the other team capitalizes on
the powerplay, but a team

players themselves are considered

special, especially chosen as athletes

who have exhibited a high standard of
hip in the game.

can get away unscathed with a few
minor infractions here and there.

Not so in the Dairyland Sportsman-
ship Jamboree being hosted by the
Castlegar Minor Hockey Association
here March 2 to 4.

In this tourney, every penalty a
team gets costs it a point in the overall
standings, and if the other team hap-
pens to score then it's a double-
whammy.

Organizers say the tourney will see
over 150 coaches, managers and
players participating in what is called
*‘something special for B.C.
youngsters playing minor hockey."’

What makes the tourney special is a
unique format Which divides the
players into eight teams, mixing
players of different communities
together to form the teams. And the

Of course there is the penalty rule,
which will ultimately determine the
outcome of the tourney.

Each team begins the tourngy. with
50 points and will play three games. A
win is worth two points but every
minor penalty costs a point and a
major costs dearly.

Begun in 1975, the Dairyland event
is held three or four times a year in
communities across B.C.

All Kootenay region Minor Hockey
Associations were invited to par-
ticipate.

Opening ceremonies will be held at
the Community Complex following
the opening game of the tourney
which begins as 8:30 a.m. March 3.

Games will continue throughout
the day at the Pioneer and Complex
with closing ceremonies set for the
Complex at 11:45 a.m. March 4.

Atoms break even
with Valley boys
as playoffs loom

ATOMS 2 BEAVER VALLEY7

ATOMS 4 BEAVER VALLEY 4

The Castlegar Atom All-stars split a
pair of games against the Beaver
Valley Atom Reps on Sunday and
Wednesday of the past week in Beaver
Valley.

Wednesdy’s game was all Beaver
Valley as they took a first period lead
of 3-0 and doubled that to 6-0 heading
into the final frame.

Castlegar did outscore the Beavers
2-1 in the third period — on two goals
by captain Shawn Horcoff — but it
was not enough as Beaver Valley
skated to a 7-2 win

Sunday’s gamg was a much
tighter affair as the two teams played
toa 4-4 draw.

Beaver Valley got on the
scoreboard first scoring at the 12
minute mark of the first period. But
Castlegar got that one back 10 secon-

ds later
unassisted.

The second period was all Castlegar
with scoring two more goals to take a
3-1 lead. Horcoff got his second of
the game from Kent Fauth, and Jay
Antignani scored on a feed from Hor-
coff.

Beaver Valley replied with one of
its own to narrow the gap to one
before the period ended.

Beaver Valley kept the pressure on
and went ahead with two goals by the
halfway mark of the final period. But
with four minutes left Castiegar's
Grady Moore, with an unassited ef-
fort, knotted the game at four. Justin
Evin played solidly between the pipes
for Castlegar.

The All-stars wind up the regular
season this Saturday. and Sunday in
Spokane. Then it’s back to Beaver
Valley March 9, 10 and 11 for the
‘West Kootenay league playoffs.

when Horcoff scored

insurance, has a policy for protection
in negligence cases that amounts to $6
million

“*Voiding the insurance won't likely
stop the practice,’’ Ramsay said. ‘‘A
game suspension would because in my
case I would rather play then be
suspended.”

Bruce Allison, president of the B.C.
junior loop, said the league's response
will be tough if teams disregard the
notice.

But Ladner Penguins coach Ken
Walters said the coaches have not been

IT’S NOT THE OLYMPICS .

informed ee measures will be
taken for playerSor teams ignoring the
directive.

Walters said the league’s board of
governors will discuss the matter
during meetings later this month.

The move is a giant step towards
preventing serious injury on the ice, he
said.

“I think it’s an excellent decision.
The game should be decided on skill
and not goonmanship. This measure
will help take unnecessary stickwork
out of the game and hopefully a lot of
the other shenanigans as well.’”

Waltefs wants fighting

arm
February 25,1990 Cas@legarNews 3

No gas in Shell's tank in CRHL

team had two players in the penalty
box, four on the ice and none on their
own bench,

Sandman pressed and was rewar-
ded with goals by Antignani, from

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: STANDINGS
TEAM
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Sendmon
Woodland Park Shell

SCORING
Player
Clay Martini, Sandman
Kelly Keraiff,Shell
Niki Hyson, Hi Arrow
Doug Knowler, Hi Arrow
John Abetkolf, Hi Arrow
Rod Fayant, Shell
Dwayne Weir, Sandman
Bruno Tassone, Shell
Kevin Kirby, Shell
Adrian Markin, Sandman

SSELSESSTS>

Martini and Weir, and Conroy with
his second of the night from Ross
Saunders and Ron Ashby.

But Shell had no wheels on its train
in the final frame while Sandman had
plenty of steam left.

tini went gunning to be the first player

ue to reach the 50 goal

‘vst ran out of time. He

bh with five minutes

‘ his 49th with just 14

seconds. Terhune assisted on both

goais and Ai picked up his

fourth assist of the night on Martini’s
48th.

Martini tied Hi Arrow’s Niki
Hyson at the 49-goal mark and both
will be, trying to beat the other to 50
when the two teams play at the Com-
plex on Monday at 9:30 p.m.

The win moves Sandman into
second place in the three team league
while Shell drops into last — a point
behind.

Hi Arrow leads the league with a
17-13-3 record and has three games
remaining while Sandman has two
and Shell also nas three.

Playoffs in the CRHL begin March
6 and will be played out in round-
robin format with each team playing
the other twice.

Markin made it 5-3 for
with assists to Antignani and Martini.

Joe Bell brought Shell to within one
again, scoring from Kirby, but that is
as close as it would get.

Ashby, from Conroy, made it 6-4
with 13 minutes remaining before
Weir got his second of the game from
Martini and Terhune to make it a
three-goal buldge.

With the game well in hand, Mar-

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“If there is a fight the two players (
should be) gone for the game,"’ he
said. ‘*If an individual has a profile for
fighting more stringent steps are taken
tocurtail his activities.”’

. but it's a start for Edina Rezansoff, 9, who

~~, in the school yard at Twin Rivers Elementary Friday

CasNews photo by Ed Mills

Johnson retires
from ski circuit

His glory
was brief

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (AP) —
Bill Johnson made it official last
week

After nine seasons of often tem:
pestuous relations with the United
States ski team, Johnson announced
he would retire from amateur com
petition at the end of this season

The only American ever to win an
Olympic downhill, the brash Johnson
fever recaptured, the form that

downhill gold medal in Sarajevo as
well as three World Cup downhill vic-
tories that same year.

Plagued by knee and back injuries
and poor training habits, Johnson’s
career went into rapid decline in sub-
sequent years. He was reduced to
competing in regional races in the
United States against skiers half his
age

“I made my decision a couple
weeks ago in some Rocky Mountain
trophy series races,"’ Johnson said at
a news conference. ‘I was racing
against a lot of ‘kids 1S and 16 years
old. I'll be 30 next month. I realized

catapulted him to the 1984 Olympic - that was not the place for me.”’

For the record

It was mistakenly reported in
the Feb. 21 issue of the Castlegar
News that Niki Hyson had over-
taken Kelly Keraiff in the scoring
race in the Castlegar Recreational
Hockey League. In fact, Keraiff
leads Hyson.

ARROW LAKE
ELEVATION

1410.76 ft. on Feb. 23
Forecast of

Elevation
1405.18 ft. by March 2

The Castlegar Kiwanis Club

Extends a Warm

Thank You

To all the Skate-A-Thon Participants. And to
all those who gave Pledges.
tributors — Carl's Drugs & Pharamsave.

Also Con-

This sale is exceptional as
every item in our store will be
Reduced 40%. Just some of
the items reduced are
Eorrings — Rings — Charms
— Chains — Jewellery Boxes
— Figurines — Crystal —
Novelties — Watches

NOTICE!

To Our Valued Customers

A special 40% off sale will be
held for our Castlegar and
District customers. 1 day only —
Saturday, March 3, 1990 from
10:00-a.m. to 5:30 p.m

& | ¢

1287 Cedar Ave.,
Trail
» Across from Zellers

8-3555

VISA
MASTERCARD

RECEIPTS
— NO FEES

CASTLEGAR
601-18th St., 365-7232

VARIABLE AND FIXED TERMS
— INSTANT INCQME TAX

CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION

Your Community Financial Centre for Over 40 Years |

‘1989 Contribution
Deadline is March I st’’

INVEST.
TODAY!

SS

Competitive Rates
Convenient Terms

SLOCAN PARK
Highway 6
226-7212